A group of motherboard enthusiasts working for GIGABYTE, sharing their insider knowledge and general ramblings of the motherboard business, the tech industry, latest technologies and trends, and other random odds and ends.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

GIGABYTE X99 motherboards feature LED lighting for the audio guard light path and the back panel LED, providing a cool, custom look to your rig. These lights are now programmable, so you can have them beat to the rhythm of the music you are listening to, or pulse at a soothing pace to create a great atmosphere to enhance the environment of your game, movie or music. You can also turn them off if you are wanting to get some shuteye.

Friday, August 22, 2014

We have look through your submissions and had a really good time being remembered some of our finest posts on the GIGABYTE Tech Daily Blog. To choose the winners wasn’t an easy task so here are the winners!

For the 3rd place and the winner of the AM1M-S2H, we chose Reuben Knutt﻿

For the 2nd place and the winner of the G1.SNIPER A88X, the winner is Gábor Éberhardt

We decided to choose among your propositions for the one with the best performance. Two entries were tied so we had to flip a coin. Our congratulations go to Xavier Hé Ouais for winning the Z97X-Gaming 7.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Hey everyone. While GIGABYTE X99 series motherboards are quickly approaching launch, we thought we’d share another teaser pic, this time from our upcoming X99-UD4 motherboard. Even the UD4 is looking sharp in my biased opinion with the LED lighting and heatsinks.

Those amazing folks from EK have done it again with this awesome water block kit for the GIGABYTE Z97X-OC FORCE. Should make a pretty sweet looking system for those wanting to trick out their OC FORCE board. Check out the full specs and pick up a set for yourself at the EK website.

Monday, August 11, 2014

GIGABYTE EOC 2014 took place last Friday in Germany, and it looks like everyone had a lot of fun! The event was covered by Overclocking TV and a full recap of the event is available here: http://bit.ly/1kvyp7k

Our congratulations goes to team Hardwareluxx for taking the lead with 68pts and winning the 1st place. PC Games Hardware took the 2nd place and Game Awardfabrik 3rd. Congrats to everyone for their participation.

Here are a few pictures from the event. You can consult the full album on HWBOT’s official contest page here: http://bit.ly/XVtJ0p

Friday, August 8, 2014

There it is! Unless this picture is shared around before I can write the end of this post, here and our Facebook page are the first two places on the Internet where you can get an exclusive look at GIGABYTE’s new motherboard, the X99.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

If you are free this Friday, August 8, you should definitely tune in to Overclocking-TV’s twitch channel as Massman and Xyala will host a live stream of the GIGABYTE EOC competition taking place in Germany. The stream will start at 10AM (GMT+1), make sure you time this right with your local time zone.

This event has been put together by Der8auer in partnership with GIGABYTE. A total of 6 German overclocking teams will compete during 5 hours, benching through CPU-Z, XTU, SuperPi 32M and Memory clock. To do so, the participants will be using the following hardware:

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Hi everyone! GIGABYTE is offering you another great way to win some kickass hardware for your next PC DIY project. All you have to do is browse through the this blog and choose your favorite post. Once you’ve made your choice, you must share it on the GIGABYTE Motherboard Tech Column, in the comment section of the contest post (here), and tell us why you choose this blog post.
The top 3 will walk away with 1st : Z97N-WIFI, 2nd : G1.SNIPER A88X and 3rd : AM1M-S2H.
On top of that, we will give you the chance to win bonus hardware! If you can guess which post within the blog has received the most page views, you will have the chance to win a Z97X-Gaming G7 motherboard! Again, submit your answer in the comment section of the contest post on Facebook. Prizes1st : Z97N-WIFI2nd : G1.SNIPER A88X3rd : AM1M-S2HBonus Prize: Z97X-Gaming 7
You must submit your entry by August 17th, midnight (Eastern Time zone). Winners will be selected by GIGABYTE for their originality and will be announced here. If more than one person is eligible for the bonus prize, winner will be selected randomly within each good answer.
We wish you a great read through our blog, and good luck!
Note: You don’t have to choose from the first page of posts, there are 5 years of great stuff here!

Monday, August 4, 2014

If you love overclocking, this is an opportunity that is not to be missed. HyperX has opened their Asian Qualifiers, which will be held all through August, for the HyperX OC Takeover (HOT). The top 3 will be invited (all expenses paid) to participate at the HOT World Finals for a live extreme overclocking competition held during CES 2015.